The 'Venus of Arles' statue in the Louvre Museum holds which fruit in her hand?

The 'Venus of Arles' is a 1.94-metre-high (6.4 ft) sculpture of Venus at the Louvre Museum. It is in Hymettus marble and dates to the end of the 1st century BC.

The 'Venus' was found in 1651, by workmen who were digging a well. The head appeared first, at a depth of six feet, which spurred further excavations. Later, after it had been given in 1681 to Louis XIV to decorate the 'Galerie des Glaces' (Hall of Mirrors) of Versailles, further excavations were made in the area of the theatre's 'scenae frons' ( elaborate background of the Roman theater stage), but no further fragments were found. The statue was seized from the royal collection during the French Revolution and has been at the Louvre ever since its inception.

In his restoration of the sculpture, the royal sculptor François Girardon, to make the sculpture more definitely a Venus, added some attributes: the apple in the right hand – as won in the 'Judgement of Paris' (a story from Greek mythology) – and the mirror in the left. The discovery in 1911 of a cast made of the sculpture demonstrated the extent of Girardon's transformative restorations, which included refinishing the surfaces and slimming the figure in the process.